CPU tops 100%, Xorg to blame
Tom London
selinux at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 01:28:24 UTC 2008
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Antonio Olivares
<olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> On the machine that also fails to install kile right back after uninstalling it so that I could avoid conflicts, the CPU went up very high. top shows high numbers for CPU running X only :(
>
> [olivares at riohigh ~]$ top
>
> top - 18:47:04 up 6 min, 2 users, load average: 1.56, 1.35, 0.64
> Tasks: 126 total, 2 running, 123 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
> Cpu(s): 28.6%us, 71.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
> Mem: 499244k total, 492300k used, 6944k free, 34008k buffers
> Swap: 2100784k total, 1120k used, 2099664k free, 249532k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 3280 root 20 0 102m 26m 7484 R 81.8 5.5 0:51.89 Xorg
> 4039 olivares 20 0 2428 1068 836 R 65.5 0.2 0:00.19 top
> 1 root 20 0 2008 516 464 S 0.0 0.1 0:02.94 init
> 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
> 3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
> 4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.18 ksoftirqd/0
> 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
> 6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0
> 7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.08 khelper
> 10 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kstop/0
> 149 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/0
> 151 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 kblockd/0
> 153 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
> 154 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify
> 218 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cqueue
> 225 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 ata/0
> 226 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux
> [1]+ Done xterm -e top
> [olivares at riohigh ~]$ top
>
> top - 18:47:11 up 6 min, 2 users, load average: 1.51, 1.34, 0.64
> Tasks: 126 total, 1 running, 124 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
> Cpu(s): 28.4%us, 35.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 20.5%id, 15.4%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.6%si, 0.0%st
> Mem: 499244k total, 492300k used, 6944k free, 34016k buffers
> Swap: 2100784k total, 1120k used, 2099664k free, 249604k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 3280 root 20 0 99m 26m 7484 S 90.8 5.5 0:58.62 Xorg
> 4043 olivares 20 0 2424 964 736 R 5.3 0.2 0:00.07 top
> 1662 root 20 0 27540 1288 792 S 1.8 0.3 0:00.27 rsyslogd
> 3927 olivares 20 0 34696 11m 8136 S 1.8 2.4 0:01.74 gkrellm
> 1 root 20 0 2008 516 464 S 0.0 0.1 0:02.94 init
> 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
> 3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
> 4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.18 ksoftirqd/0
> 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
> 6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0
> 7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.08 khelper
> 10 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kstop/0
> 149 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/0
> 151 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 kblockd/0
> 153 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
> 154 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify
> 218 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cqueue
> [olivares at riohigh ~]$ /sbin/lspci | grep 'VGA'
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]
> [olivares at riohigh ~]$
>
>
> Advice/suggestions/welcome
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio
>
>
Could it be this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474586
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Tom London
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